20 February 2010

Leo Hartas is an uber illustrator with deep roots in the RPG community, he is also a skilled digital painter and 3D CGI artist.

Fantasy Cutouts is a papercraft site where Leo unleashes his fantastic and very detailed fantasy creations (original design btw). The models are primarily aimed at RPG board players but if you fancy his designs then definitely go for it.

To give you a sample of the quality of his papercrafts, Leo has provided a free model of a hovel (small house / cottage). And if you want more, you can find all sorts of steampunk vehicles and fantasy creatures at his site below.

With the 2010 Vancouver Winter games underway, heres the official emblem called Ilanaaq the Inukshuk, papercraft by epengr.

Inukshuk is a symbol used by Canada's Inuit people / Eskimos to act as guidepost for people travelling in the frozen tundra. The Inukshuk is often seen as a bunch of stocked rocks that takes the form of a human. Ilanaaq is an Inuit word that means "friend".

The Deadly Atomic Blossom - part kamikaze plane, part atomic bomb, based on the original scifi creations of artist Keith Thompson.

Keith's mech designs remind of me my favorite Japanese scifi artist, Kow Yokoyama (Maschinen Krieger). It would be fun to see all of Keith's works into papercraft and Paper Hobby is off to a good start.